Bridger High School - Scout Yearbook (Bridger, MT)

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CHIEFTAIN . . . 1946 FOOTBALL Front— Coach E. L. Cooper, Ray Dietz, Jim Schmidt, Matt Brown, Bill Meinhardt and Leslie Kercher. Back—Fred Blank, Cecil Mayes, Dick Wood, George Thomas, Charles Skorupa, George Jurovich and Vally Swan. In the 1945 season our gridiron six, coached by E. L. Cooper, played Byron, Wyo., high school team twice, winning and losing. The Byron Eagles defeated the Scouts, 30 to 8, but when the Wyoming team came here for a return game, the home squad gained revenge with a 34 to 12 victory. Scouts Down Byron, 34 to 12, in Only Home Game Games scheduled with Stan- ford and Denton in October were postponed because of the polio epidemic in southern Montana. The Scouts were in- vited to play Three Forks for the Class C six-man cham- pionship of southern Montana but declined the invitation. Next year’s prospects are not so bright with five lettermen graduating. Victories that are easy are cheap—Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. —H. W. Beecher

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CHIEFTAIN . . . 1946 The Clarks Fork Chapter, F. F. A., held its first meeting in three years, September 21, when, under the advisorship of Mr. Wayne Adams, who came to Bridger after teaching at Missoula High, the chapter elected officers tor the year 1945-46, and took other steps which resulted in initiation by the Fromberg Chapter on March 6, 1946. At the beginning of the year, vocational agriculture in Bridger had an enrollment of 32, of which 28 became members of the F. F. A. During the year two boys left school, one more student joined the group, and one other high school student enrolled in both agriculture and the F. F. A., which gave the chapter a total of 31 enrolled in classes and 28 members at the end of the year. During the past year the chapter made a good record for a first year group. The major campaign of the year took place when 789 cans of food for U. N. R. R. A. were col- lected during a two-week drive. For its work in this field the chapter received a letter of commendation from A. W. Johnson, state ad- visor, congratulating the members on their success and bringing out the fact that only one other chapter in the state had under- taken such a project. Besides the canned food drive, the chap- ter packaged the clothing for Europe that was collected throughout the community, contributed to the Infantile Paralysis drive, and sent delegates to the Bozeman and Hardin conventions. Individuals of the chapter raised and marketed 120 feeder lambs and put nine steers on feed. Bruce Russell and Henry Van- derloos took first for the chapter in the farm mechanics contest at Hardin, and Matthew Brown placed fourth in the state farm mech- anics contest, was highest scorer in livestock judging, and tied for second in public speak- ing. Officers for the year of 1945-46 were George Thomas, president; Vally Swan, vice president; Matthew Brown, secretary; Charles Skorupa. treasurer; Dick Wood, re- porter, and Harold Smith, sentinel. Officers for 1946-47 will be Charles Skorupa, presi- dent; Glenn Kozeluh, vice president; James Shatto, secretary; Donald Delmonica, treas- urer; Henry Vanderloos, reporter, and Fred Zier, sentinel.

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CHIEFTAIN . . . 1946 BASKETBALL Standing—Helt, Swan, Jurovich, Wood. Kneeling—Currie, Blank, Brown, Schmidt, Skorupa. The Bndger Scouts, a hot and cold basketball club, proved themselves a strong tournament team by taking fourth place in the district meet at Laurel. The Scouts went up and down during the season, end- ing with a record of of seven wins and nine losses. Two of the defeats were administered by non-conference teams, making a conference standing of .500 with seven wins and seven losses. The Scouts won their opening tournament game by eliminating the Edgar Wildcats by a wide margin. They received their first defeat of the tourney on the second night when they bowed to the Laurel Locomotives. The Scouts then came back to defeat and eliminate Fromberg and Joliet in the following two days, obtaining the right to play Red Lodge for third place. The tired Scouts dropped their last game in the tour- nament to Red Lodge to take fourth place. Coach Max Wilson